You have four years to defeat the other side by capturing the opposition's cities and winning military conflicts. Play takes place at two levels: first, you move your divisions across a map of America in a turn based game at the campaign level: then when two forces meet, a Micro Miniatures battle takes place with the result having its affect on the campaign level.
This game gives you the chance to rewrite history, by choosing the course that the war will take. The computer uses histroical records to determine the recruitment of forces and availability of weapons over time, so that both sides have approzimately the same "raw material" that they did in the real war.
Whether you win or lose depends on how you use them. From Mobygames. View Larger Image. Sack Beauregard and replace him with A. Dump Hooker for Thomas. And never, ever let Stuart go joyriding. Understand the bigger picture. Only registered customers can rate. Source: Dyja, Thomas. It is a game which is peculiarly suited to the American temperament and disposition;. During war, following natural disaster, or in the midst of economic hardship, this game has always provided an emotional escape for people from every race, religion and background who can collectively find solace at the ballpark.
Therefore, it somehow seems fitting that the origins of modern baseball can be traced back to a divided America, when the country was in the midst of a great Civil War. Despite the political and social grievances that resulted in the separation of the North and South, both sides shared some common interests, such as playing baseball. Although a primitive form of baseball was somewhat popular in larger communities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, it did not achieve widespread popularity until after the start of the war.
For instance, both officers and enlisted men played side by side and soldiers earned their places on the team because of their athletic talents, not their military rank or social standing. Both Union and Confederate officers endorsed baseball as a much-needed morale builder that also provided both mental and physical conditioning.
After long details at camp, it eased the boredom and created a team spirit among the men. Some soldiers actually took baseball equipment to war with them. When proper equipment was not available they often improvised with fence posts, barrel staves or tree branches for bats and yarn or rag-wrapped walnuts or lumps of cork for balls. The benefits of playing while at war went far beyond fitness, as often the camaraderie displayed on the baseball diamond translated into a teamwork mentality on the battlefield.
Many times, soldiers would write of these games in the letters sent home, as they were much more pleasant to recall than the hardship of battle.
Private Alpheris B. The report of musketry is heard but a very little distance from us. Sometimes games would be interrupted by the call of battle. The attack. Nothing in his personal writings corroborates this story, which was originally put forward by an elderly Civil War veteran, Abner Graves, who served under him.
Doubleday was an graduate of West Point graduating with A. Stewart, D. In , he was stationed at the garrison in Charleston harbor. It is said that it was Doubleday, then an artillery officer, who aimed the first Fort Sumter guns in response to the Confederate bombardment that initiated the war. Doubleday commanded a division of the 1st Corps at Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg, as well as at Gettysburg, where he assumed command of the 1st Corps after the fall of General John E.
Since then, Alexander J. Cartwright, Jr. He also drew up guidelines for punctuality, designated the use of an umpire, determined that three strikes constituted an out, and that there would be three outs per side each inning. Cartwright left the New York area in to travel. He was drawn by the Gold Rush and stories of adventures in the West. Players: AI: Present. Game Editor: No. Unit Scale: Division.
Info Features Requirements. Easy to play, hard to master, play a scenario over a few hour or a full X-turn! Color box and disk with PDF manual. Store Info. Our Digital Download service sends you a download link to the master game file once your order is complete. You can use this link to download the game directly to your computer over the internet and start playing right away.
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